1、In teaching there should be no distinction of classesWhen it comes to benevolence, one need not give precedence even to his teacherIs it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a
2、teacher of othersLearning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilousHe was of an active nature and yet fond of learning, and he was not a shamed to ask and learn of his inferiorsIn a hamlet of ten families, there may be found one honourable and sincere as I am, but not so f
3、ond of learningThey who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight initThe silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied - which one of these things belongs to me?I am not one
4、who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it thereWhen I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid themLearn as if you could not reach yo
5、ur object, and were always fearing also lest you should lose itAbout the electronic versionTang Shi San Bai Shou300 Tang Poems-001 -Five-character-ancient-verseZhang JiulingTHOUGHTS IA lonely swan from the sea flies,To alight on puddles it does not deign.Nesting in the poplar of pearlsIt spies and q
6、uestions green birds twain:Dont you fear the threat of slings,Perched on top of branches so high?Nice clothes invite pointing fingers,High climbers gods good will defy.Bird-hunters will crave me in vain,For I roam the limitless sky.-002 - -Five-character-ancient-verseZhang JiulingORCHID AND ORANGE I
7、Tender orchid-leaves in springAnd cinnamon- blossoms bright in autumnAre as self- contained as life is,Which conforms them to the seasons.Yet why will you think that a forest-hermit,Allured by sweet winds and contented with beauty,Would no more ask to-be transplantedTHan Would any other natural flow
8、er?-003 - -Five-character-ancient-verseZhang JiulingTHOUGHTS IIIThe hermit in his lone abodeNurses his thoughts cleansed of care,Them he projects to the wild gooseFor it to his distant Sovereign to bear.Who will be moved by the sincerityOf my vain day-and-night prayer?What comfort is for my loyaltyW
9、hen fliers and sinkers can compare?-004- - - -Five-character-ancient-verseZhang JiulingORCHID AND ORANGE IIHere, south of the Yangzi, grows a red orangetree.All winter long its leaves are green,Not because of a warmer soil,But because its nature is used to the cold.Though it might serve your honoura
10、ble guests,You leave it here, far below mountain and river.Circumstance governs destiny.Cause and effect are an infinite cycle.You plant your peach-trees and your plums,You forget the shade from this other tree.-005 -Five-character-ancient-verseLi BaiDOWN ZHONGNAN MOUNTAINTO THE KIND PILLOW AND BOWL
11、 OF HUSIDown the blue mountain in the evening,Moonlight was my homeward escort.Looking back, I saw my pathLie in levels of deep shadowI was passing the farm-house of a friend,When his children called from a gate of thornAnd led me twining through jade bamboosWhere green vines caught and held my clot
12、hes.And I was glad of a chance to restAnd glad of a chance to drink with my friendWe sang to the tune of the wind in the pines;And we finished our songs as the stars went down,When, I being drunk and my friend more than happy,Between us we forgot the world.-006 - -Five-character-ancient-verseLi BaiD
13、RINKING ALONE WITH THE MOONFrom a pot of wine among the flowersI drank alone. There was no one with me -Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moonTo bring me my shadow and make us three.Alas, the moon was unable to drinkAnd my shadow tagged me vacantly;But still for a while I had these friendsTo
14、cheer me through the end of springI sang. The moon encouraged me.I danced. My shadow tumbled after.As long as I knew, we were boon companions.And then I was drunk, and we lost one another.Shall goodwill ever be secure?I watch the long road of the River of Stars.-007 -Five-character-ancient-verseLi B
15、aiIN SPRINGYour grasses up north are as blue as jade,Our mulberries here curve green-threaded branches;And at last you think of returning home,Now when my heart is almost brokenO breeze of the spring, since I dare not know you,Why part the silk curtains by my bed?-008 -Five-character-ancient-verseDu
16、 FuA VIEW OF TAISHANWhat shall I say of the Great Peak? -The ancient dukedoms are everywhere green,Inspired and stirred by the breath of creation,With the Twin Forces balancing day and night.I bare my breast toward opening clouds,I strain my sight after birds flying home.When shall I reach the top a
17、nd holdAll mountains in a single glance?-009 -Five-character-ancient-verseDu FuTO MY RETIRED FRIEND WEIIt is almost as hard for friends to meetAs for the morning and evening stars.Tonight then is a rare event,Joining, in the candlelight,Two men who were young not long agoBut now are turning grey at
18、the temples.To find that half our friends are deadShocks us, burns our hearts with grief.We little guessed it would be twenty yearsBefore I could visit you again.When I went away, you were still unmarried;But now these boys and girls in a rowAre very kind to their fathers old friend.They ask me wher
19、e I have been on my journey;And then, when we have talked awhile,They bring and show me wines and dishes,Spring chives cut in the night-rainAnd brown rice cooked freshly a special way.My host proclaims it a festival,He urges me to drink ten cups -But what ten cups could make me as drunkAs I always a
20、m with your love in my heart?.Tomorrow the mountains will separate us;After tomorrow-who can say?-010 -Five-character-ancient-verseDu FuALONE IN HER BEAUTYWho is lovelier than she?Yet she lives alone in an empty valley.She tells me she came from a good familyWhich is humbled now into the dust.When t
21、rouble arose in the Kuan district,Her brothers and close kin were killed.What use were their high offices,Not even shielding their own lives? -The world has but scorn for adversity;Hope goes out, like the light of a candle.Her husband, with a vagrant heart,Seeks a new face like a new piece of jade;A
22、nd when morning-glories furl at nightAnd mandarin-ducks lie side by side,All he can see is the smile of the new love,While the old love weeps unheard.The brook was pure in its mountain source,But away from the mountain its waters darken.Waiting for her maid to come from selling pearlsFor straw to co
23、ver the roof again,She picks a few flowers, no longer for her hair,And lets pine-needles fall through her fingers,And, forgetting her thin silk sleeve and the cold,She leans in the sunset by a tall bamboo.-011 - -Five-character-ancient-verseDu FuSEEING Li Bai IN A DREAM IThere are sobs when death is
24、 the cause of parting;But life has its partings again and again.From the poisonous damps of the southern riverYou had sent me not one sign from your exile -Till you came to me last night in a dream,Because I am always thinking of you.I wondered if it were really you,Venturing so long a journey.You c
25、ame to me through the green of a forest,You disappeared by a shadowy fortressYet out of the midmost mesh of your snare,How could you lift your wings and use them?.I woke, and the low moons glimmer on a rafterSeemed to be your face, still floating in the air.There were waters to cross, they were wild
26、 and tossing;If you fell, there were dragons and rivermonsters.-012 - -Five-character-ancient-verseDu FuSEEING Li Bai IN A DREAM IIThis cloud, that has drifted all day through the sky,May, like a wanderer, never come backThree nights now I have dreamed of you -As tender, intimate and real as though
27、I were awake.And then, abruptly rising to go,You told me the perils of adventureBy river and lake-the storms, the wrecks,The fears that are borne on a little boat;And, here in my doorway, you rubbed your white headAs if there were something puzzling you.Our capital teems with officious people,While
28、you are alone and helpless and poor.Who says that the heavenly net never fails?It has brought you ill fortune, old as you are.A thousand years fame, ten thousand years fame-What good, when you are dead and gone.-013 -Five-character-quatrainWang WeiAT PARTINGI dismount from my horse and I offer you w
29、ine,And I ask you where you are going and why.And you answer: I am discontentAnd would rest at the foot of the southern mountain.So give me leave and ask me no questions.White clouds pass there without end.-014 - -Five-character-quatrainWang WeiTO QIWU QIAN BOUND HOMEAFTER FAILING IN AN EXAMINATIONIn a happy reign there should be no hermits;The wis
